A new year means a new barrage of television shows requiring instant viewing. While we’ve polished off all of our end-of-year lists for 2022, Hollywood refuses to slow down with both returns of highly anticipated series as well as welcomed new shows to dig into. Rian Johnson makes his return to television with Natasha Lyonne as his star, while filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn also takes another stab at a miniseries with his latest, “Copenhagen Cowboy.” Fan favorite shows such as “Servant” and “Hunters” arrive for their final seasons while Hirokazu Kore-eda makes his television debut through an original Netflix series.

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There’s a centerpiece scene in the series premiere of Showtime’s “Your Honor” that’s among the best of the year. A New Orleans judge named Michael Desiato (Bryan Cranston) has returned home to find his son Adam (Hunter Doohan), rattled and apparently injured. The boy can barely speak, quietly muttering what happened that morning to his powerful father through tears. Adam was in the Ninth Ward, visiting the spot of his mother’s murder, which happened a year ago.

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Showtime really, really wants you to watch the upcoming limited series, “Your Honor.” Over the past three months, the network has released one teaser, a full trailer, and now a second full trailer to promote the series that made our Most Anticipated TV list. And honestly, I can’t blame Showtime for doing it. This is definitely a series you should make sure to check out.

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As seen in the latest trailer for “Your Honor,” Showtime has pulled back the curtain even more on the event series and shows not only the plot but also the major players involved in the thriller.

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Do you know what’s bad? Hitting and killing an innocent bystander with your car. What’s worse is driving away after the crime is committed. Compounding that problem would be if your dad is actually a respected judge in the town you live in. And the icing on the cake would be if the person you killed is the son of a crime boss. But that’s the situation facing the young man at the center of the new show, “Your Honor.”

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As seen in the trailer for “Your Honor,” the Showtime limited series follows the story of a young man that is involved in a deadly hit and run, who then goes to his judge father and asks if he can help cover it up.

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Despite being just the weirdest year ever, it’s also been a super-strong, solid one for television. Maybe it’s because movies got kneecapped during the pandemic or maybe it’s because we’re all stuck at home more than ever, but there’s definitely lots of good TV to watch, including our picks for the 20 best shows of 2020 at the halfway point, which didn’t even include August’s acclaimed “Lovecraft Country.”

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However, the Fall has always been the big season for television.

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A common plot in films and TV series is the moral dilemma where a parent must bend/break their own moral code to help save a child. This happens time and time again. And the reason it works so well is that, if you’re a parent, you can relate to the irrationality that takes hold when you’re left with a decision to do something irrefutably wrong to protect your kid. That’s exactly what drives the story of the new Showtime series, “Your Honor.”

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As seen in the teaser for “Your Honor,” Bryan Cranston is put in that terrible position of protecting his son from what lies ahead.

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As documented in our Best TV of The 2010 Decade feature, which you should read, the 2010s were the age of PeakTV, Prestige TV and the dawn of the streaming age. Now in this new decade of the 2020s, we enter the Streaming War era. Yes, Netflix is here and here to stay, HBO isn’t going anywhere and Showtime, FX and all the other major players are solidified in status.

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